Articles by Manish Chandra Pandey
A real kidnapping inspired by the reel
Two Bollywood movies inspired a driver and his wife to carry out the sensational kidnapping of the Sitapur-based woman district manager of UP State Food and Essential Commodity Corporation on Friday, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Feb 23, 2010 10:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
East or west? Where would the new UP BJP chief emerge from
The new UP BJP president would be anointed in a couple of weeks' time. It could be even before that. But the big question is not who the new chief going to be. It's more about from which direction the new chief of the state BJP unit is going to emerge: east or west? Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
Updated on Feb 22, 2010 09:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Manjunath killer gets to live, in jail
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court in Lucknow on Friday commuted the capital punishment given to the main accused in murdering IndianOil Corporation (IOC) executive Manjunath Shanmugam to life.
Updated on Dec 12, 2009 12:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , Lucknow
Manish Chandra Pandey & Rohit K Singh‘Demolition was planned’
The demolition of the Babri mosque was planned to the last detail and Justice M.S. Liberhan, who probed the matter, was told so, former BJP member of Parliament Ram Vilas Vedanti has said, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Dec 07, 2009 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Ayodhya
‘Demolition day happiest of my life’
Indicted by the Liberhan Commission for his role in the demolition, BJP leader Vinay Katiyar sounded unperturbed on Monday when HT spoke to him. Excerpts from the interview:
Updated on Nov 24, 2009 12:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey
Next on UPSC: Online filing of exam application!
A day after announcing that the prestigious Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination are in for an overhaul, Professor DP Agrawal, the commission's chairman told HT that in about an year's time it would be possible for candidates to fill their exam forms online.
Updated on Nov 13, 2009 08:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
'Muslims are an integral part of India'
After Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, the vice president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, yet another Shia cleric Maulana Hamidul Hasan has made it clear that Muslims have no objection to singing Vande Matram, the national song, not as a form of worship but in praise of the motheraland.
Updated on Nov 08, 2009 08:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Distinct identity
IIM-L may belong to the famed B-school family, but it also has its own ‘genetic code’ Manish Chandra Pandey Reports
Updated on Nov 04, 2009 09:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, New Delhi
BJP candidate in Lucknow relies on Atal's kurta!
Usually in political press meets convened in the run up to an election, politicians flash their manifesto. But in Lucknow, a BJP candidate on Monday flashed kurtas instead!
Updated on Oct 26, 2009 10:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
IIMs plan to go global, may open doors for foreign students
The Indian Institutes of Management are planning to go global with some of them mulling the option of opening the doors of country’s premier business school for foreign students too, Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
Updated on Oct 25, 2009 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
'Piloting' Lucknow as an IT-BPO destination
Efforts to develop Lucknow as an IT-BPO destination got a boost with Sachin Pilot, the young minister of state for IT and Communications saying that his ministry was ready to help, if the state government took the initiative. Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
Updated on Oct 25, 2009 05:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
He was a CEO at 14 years!
When Suhas Gopinath, 23, arrived for Shaping Young Minds Programme, there were not many to escort him to the venue. It was after sometime that some of the organizers recognized him and ushered him inside where he was the main speaker, Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
Updated on Oct 24, 2009 11:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Shourie praises Sibal, Chidambaram
Responding to a HT query, Arun Shourie made a tongue in cheek remark, “I am very grateful to the BJP leadership for their large heartedness and sparing me (from expulsion), despite my criticism.” Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
Updated on Oct 24, 2009 02:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Designer, eco-friendly candles this Diwali
How about lighting up a designer green, customized candle, this Diwali? What’s more, when you use these candles they also help clean the surrounding environment.
Updated on Oct 16, 2009 12:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
A princess makes the Oudh royals see red
A French national, 'Princess' Jehan Ara Fay Ary's proposed visit to Lucknow for launching a cleanliness campaign in the slums here has kicked up a furore with the 'direct' descendants of Wajid Ali Shah, the last ruler of Oudh, asking her to come clean on her 'royalty' status before she goes cleaning the Nawabi city.
Updated on Oct 13, 2009 09:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Retail lessons from the street for IIM students
When students of retail marketing from the IIM-Lucknow visited the weekly Nakkhas market in the old city, they were amazed to see some roadside vendors selling wristwatches dipped in a tub of water. The students learnt most shopkeepers had devised ingenious methods to hold consumers’ attention, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Sep 15, 2009 01:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Dissidence shifts to UP
There seems to be no end to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s troubles. After its central party headquarters was hit by image-shattering acts of dissidence, now it’s the turn of its Lucknow unit to face dissensions, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Sep 07, 2009 02:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Call for clean up of Bhojpuri films
Bombarded with a spate of protests and complaints, the Akhil Bharatiya Bhojpuri Samaj has decided to stamp out dialogues with double meanings and titillating content from films, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Sep 07, 2009 12:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Heeding RSS advice, BJP leaders head for UP
With the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) brokering a truce among top BJP leaders, party veterans have now shifted their focus to Uttar Pradesh (UP), reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Sep 01, 2009 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
One killed in clash between supporters of BJP MP, cleric
A 22-year-old youth died and many others were injured in firing between supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ramakant Yadav and Ulema Council chief Maulana Amir Madni in Azamgarh, about 260 kilometers east of the state capital on Wednesday.
Updated on Aug 13, 2009 01:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow Lucknow Lucknow
Kalam urges media role in development
Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, 78, on Monday urged Hindustan Times and Hindi Hindustan to become dynamic partners in the development of the nation, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in particular.
Updated on Aug 03, 2009 09:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Lucknow
Manish Chandra Pandey, M Tariq KhanHis arrest started case against 377
When Arif Jafar, the 39-year-old executive director of India Naz Foundation International, penned these lines in 1995, he probably wasn’t aware that he would actually end up doing what he wrote.
Updated on Jul 05, 2009 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Nowhere people now have a voice
A social activist comes to the rescue of 5,000 villagers in Bahraich district of UP, who had no identity and no rights for 60 years after Independence, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Jul 01, 2009 01:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Bahraich
‘Terror nursery’ turns poll hub
Terror remains the key issue in the coming Lok Sabha poll as well, with most Muslim residents convinced that their boys have been framed and unfairly maligned, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Apr 10, 2009 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Azamgarh
SP not averse to BJP leaders: Mulayam
SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav launched a counter offensive on Wednesday by declaring that the party was not averse to welcoming more BJP leaders if they gave up their anti-Muslim approach and controversial issues. Manish Chandra Pandey reports.
Updated on Feb 18, 2009 09:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Munnabhai MP to say it with roses
Living his on-screen image of a Gandhian, Sanjay Dutt in an exclusive chat with Hindustan Times says," I would offer roses to those political opponents who hurl abuses at me during the campaign."Manish Chandra Pandey & Pankaj Jaiswal examines...
Updated on Feb 19, 2009 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , Lucknow
Manish Chandra Pandey & Pankaj JaiswalLucknow prays for fighter Vajpayee
With hope in their hearts and a prayer on their lips, Lucknowites are closely following the medical bulletins being issued by the AIIMS in Delhi. They’re all hoping “Atalji” comes out of his illness, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Feb 08, 2009 01:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Jaipur blasts case: Man arrested in UP
The Jaipur Police arrested a youth from the Moulviganj locality in Lucknow for his alleged involvement in the Jaipur blasts, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Aug 25, 2008 11:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
New delay in top B-school admission
IIM directors, as well as admissions chairman of premier management institutes were busy holding discussions on how to sort out ‘creamy layer issue’, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Apr 26, 2008 02:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
Two more held; ISRO was a terror target
The same militants were also involved in the 2005 attack on the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore, reports Manish Chandra Pandey.
Updated on Feb 12, 2008 03:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow